Life is magnificent - just as it comes.Life has no need for fancy clothes, or lipstick.Life is no pig.Our life is the greatest gift of all creation.When we are unhappy with life -when we are shocked by the stock market,or dismayed by our choice of political candidates,let us not lash out in anger.But also, let us not try to pretty up lifewith some lipstick and some party clothes.See life clearly - no rose colored glasses -and then CHOOSE to love life.CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful,be forgiving of everyone and of every actwe believe has hurt us.Life just "IS."We get to CHOOSE our relationship with life.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

One of the funny things about the stock market is thatevery time one person buys,another sells, and both think they are astute.- William Feather

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year.I told him, "At my age, I don't even buy green bananas."- Claude Pepper

Long before the thousand millions are here,the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stockand strengthened in the United States,will assert itself.- Josiah Strong

I put less stock in others' opinions than my own.No one else's opinions could derail me.- Judd Nelson

Control of a company does not carry with it the abilityto control the price of its stock.- Paul Getty

If stock market experts were so expert,they would be buying stock, not selling advice.- Norman Ralph Augustine

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock,has triumphed most in the contrary direction -in simplicity,in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.- Lytton Strachey

The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchangehas been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.- John Mortimer

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit,that he would give my people 30 days to go back home,collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.- Chief Joseph

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them.I wouldn't bother to find new ones.- Brian Eno

I don't give a damn about the stock market.But I do care about jobs.- George Voinovich

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.- Bill Forsyth

The depths of the Depression.You didn't ask what the job was, what the pay was,you didn't ask about stock options, or -you said yes.- Art Linkletter

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash,where they lost several million dollars,a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.- Federico Garcia Lorca

Currently I am working on another three books,doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies,plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!- Nigel Dennis

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized bythe stock market crash that there was a lost generation.- Ron Chernow

One way for investors to protect themselves from arapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limitorder rather than a market order.- Arthur Levitt

I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches -which you heard in the primary campaign -that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.- Ed Rendell

Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.- Irving Fisher

Traditionally, the sample is always better than thestock you deliver to the store.- Calvin Klein

You get recessions, you have stock market declines.If you don't understand that's going to happen,then you're not ready, you won't do well in the markets.- Peter Lynch

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.- Christie Hefner

We gathered all the stock we could find,and made an attempt to move.We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa.We lost several hundred in crossing the river.- Chief Joseph

A lot of the money in the stock market is really ournational retirement plan,for better or worse.- Ron Chernow

There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other,nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.- Letitia Landon

There is no country in the world where it's as easyto find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.- Ron Chernow

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.- Warren Buffett

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investingwith the big boys and that they're really not at adisadvantage entering the stock market.- Ron Chernow

When you have a good stock, you can make a good soup.- Martin Yan

The guy that just arranges things so that the stockmarket holds up is nobody in my -in my estimation.- James Stockdale

The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.- Ron Chernow

One of the very nice things about investing in thestock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy.It's your window into a very large world.- Ron Chernow

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman.Grounders are his stock trade.- Jackie Robinson

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic,and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.- Arthur Conan Doyle

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that peoplelike to see a stock company of actors.- Thayer David

I am not criticizing investing in the stock market;I am an investor.- Grace Napolitano

Most people sell stock to pay taxes,but I didn't want to sell any stock.- Christie Hefner

The techniques I developed for studying turbulence,like weather, also apply to the stock market.- Benoit Mandelbrot

I have invested in the stock market since I was very young.- Christie Hefner

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insideris like a man buying cows in the moonlight.- Daniel Drew

We had a booming stock market in 1929 and then wentinto the world's greatest depression.We have a booming stock market in 1999.Will the bubble somehow burst, and then we enter depression? Well,some things are not different.- Jeffrey Sachs

If a rich person invests in a business,either directly or through stock purchases,it means business can grow and hire more people.- Terry Savage

I own stock, and I also insure my car with Geico.- Ernie Banks

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade.There's nothing wrong with them.- Michael Nesmith

It has, therefore, been a favorite boast of the people of Wales and Cornwall,that the original British stock flourishes in its unmixed purity only among them.- Thomas Bulfinch

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.- Marlene Dietrich

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financialstuff and the stock market.- Anita Roddick

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt goton the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed.He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'- Joe Biden

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control,in terms of editing, and music, and film stock,shot selection, and what takes they use.- Aaron Eckhart

A lot of people at Shearson ended up making a lot ofmoney because they had stock or stock options.Their kids were able to go to college,and it changed a lot of people's lives.- Sanford I. Weill

I never attempt to make money on the stock market.I buy on the assumption that they could close the marketthe next day and not reopen it for five years.- Warren Buffett

I mean I wasn't a founder in the sense that I contributedanything scientifically but in the sense that I signedthe corporation papers and,and owned founder's stock.- Arthur Rock

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character,and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.- Theodore Parker

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not toinsist that politics and religion don't mix.This is the stock response of the left.- Christopher Lasch

You can do almost anything with soup stock,it's like a strong foundation.When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.- Martin Yan

For the impious act begets more after it,like to the parent stock.- Aeschylus

Beware of the man who will not engage in idle conversation;he is planning to steal your walking stick or water your stock.- William Emerson